"They have had a year and a half to exercise that prerogative and, now that they have blown through that deadline, most people would acknowledge that is a privilege they should relinquish … rather than get into additional political gamesmanship".
"It would be strange indeed if the United Kingdom government, exercising no internal power in Rhodesia, were given the right to exercise the prerogative of clemency".
"The present government is the fully de facto government and as such is the only power that can exercise the prerogative," he concluded.
This exercise of prerogative power gives the Crown authority to recruit members of the armed forces, appoint commissioned officers, and establish agreements with foreign governments to station troops in their territory.
No monarch ever exercised the prerogative again.
Senior Democrats like George J. Mitchell of Maine and Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii wanted part of the first big televised inquiry since Watergate, and they exercised the prerogative of their seniority.
Since then, my wife and children have exercised the prerogative of the atheist Jew, and put together our own culinary Christmas traditions, based on what we like best (and the fact that we spent many Christmases in France).
At 88 years old, Eric Rohmer has exercised the prerogative of great age and a great career; for what may well be his final work he has indulged himself by producing a butterfly - a butterfly that is all too apt to be broken on the wheel of irony, or modernity, or incredulity.
The Sovereign exercises the "prerogative of mercy", which is used to pardon convicted offenders or reduce sentences.
